Akiva Yaglom
Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom (Russian: Аки́ва Моисе́евич Ягло́м; 6 March 1921 – 13 December 2007) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes. Yaglom spent most of his career in Russia working in various institutions, including the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics.
Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom | |
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Yaglom in 1976 | |
| Born | 6 March 1921 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR |
| Died | 13 December 2007 (aged 86) Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Lomonosov Moscow State University Steklov Institute of Mathematics |
| Awards | Otto Laporte Award (1988) Lewis Fry Richardson Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Probability theory, Turbulence |
| Institutions | Institute of Theoretical Geophysics A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrey Kolmogorov |
From 1992 until his death, Yaglom worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research fellow in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He authored several popular books in mathematics and probability, some of them with his twin brother and mathematician Isaak Yaglom.
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